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Apple, Boeing, Google and Amazon among top 10 most respected companies

Barron’s released the results of its annual survey showing which companies investors respect the most, and it comes with good… Read More

Chart: Here are the 15 companies that filed the most patents in 2013

IBM continues to be the patent king. For the 21st straight year, the Armonk, New York-based company filed more patents… Read More

Monday was biggest online shopping day in U.S. history, mobile traffic tops 31%

Cyber Monday is traditionally the day that office workers troll for deals at their desks when the boss isn’t looking,… Read More

Watson has an API: IBM takes Jeopardy champ to the cloud

IBM announced today that it’s opening up partnerships for developers to work with Watson, its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. What made it… Read More

Path clear for Amazon’s CIA contract as IBM drops legal challenge

Putting an end to its battle with Amazon, IBM has waved the white flag. FCW reported this week that the New… Read More

The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn’t expect it to be widely used

A story about computing history took the Internet by storm this week after Bill Gates told a Harvard University audience… Read More

Amazon livid over decision to re-open bidding for $600 million CIA contract

Amazon.com’s federal complaint over a $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency was made public today and shows… Read More

Amazon’s huge $600M cloud contract with CIA now up in the air

Back in March, it appeared Amazon had hit a home run with a $600 million cloud computing deal with the… Read More

Cray-Z speed: Meet the world’s fastest supercomputer from Seattle-based Cray

We wrote about the latest supercomputer creation from Seattle-based Cray a few weeks ago, and now it’s official: Titan is… Read More

SpaceCurve raises $2.7M for ‘big data’ service, names CEO

SpaceCurve, a Seattle startup that’s developing new ways to analyze location-based services, social media chatter and other information, has raised… Read More

Microsoft patent ranking slips in 2011 as IBM retains the crown

You can measure technology companies in all sorts of ways — from revenues to market value to employees. Another data… Read More

Stats: iPad rules as mobile shopping rises on Christmas

Christmas is traditionally a day for opening gifts, not buying more stuff, but that appears to be changing thanks to… Read More

Guest Post: Is Seattle the center of supercomputing?

Supercomputers were once the exclusive province of government spy agencies, research labs and academics. The top computer makers were the… Read More

Watson in Seattle: Tips from Ken Jennings on beating IBM’s supercomputer

A scaled-down version of IBM’s Watson will be in Seattle starting this weekend for the SC11 supercomputer conference, giving attendees… Read More

Chart of the Week: IBM > MSFT

Apple made headlines when it surpassed Microsoft in market value, the stock market’s measure of a company’s overall worth. And… Read More

Chart: The PC isn’t dead, it’s just another one of our devices

Today is the 30th anniversary of the unveiling of the IBM PC, one of the landmark moments of the digital revolution. This… Read More

IBM is now bigger than Microsoft (at least in market value)

Microsoft rose to prominence in the early 1980s, largely based on a deal to brings its operating system to IBM… Read More

Q&A: ‘Final Jeopardy’ author Stephen Baker on Watson, IBM, the future of e-books and the fate of humanity

Stephen Baker is the journalist and author who traced IBM’s Watson project from its inception and development all the way… Read More

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